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Year 4 Clarinet Concert

Year 4 have all been learning clarinet with Mrs Reeves from the Dorset Music Service. Parents were delighted to watch and hear them all playing their clarinets. After only 8 weeks of lessons they managed to play 4 pieces and use 6 different notes. That’s quite an achievement! Well done Year 4 and thank you …

Songs Through the Decade

A huge well done to our Y5s who took part in Songs Through the Decades with nearly 400 children from Weymouth and Portland schools. Here they are at their rehearsal singing their hearts out! Thank you to Martine Burt for directing the show which was funded by the Dorset Music Education Singing Strategy and organised …

Junior Choir Cup

Well done to our choir for winning the Junior Choir Cup at the Weymouth Music Festival last week. They gave a wonderful performance of When I Grow Up, Go the Distance and This Old Man and had fantastic comments from the adjudicator. They were presented with the trophy at the Festival Concert on Friday evening. …

The Lion King

After months of rehearsing, learning lines, songs and dances our choir presented their amazing performance of Lion King Junior in school last week. Everyone was thrilled by the beautiful costumes, the vibrant scenery and the wonderful acting and singing. Thank you to all the children who took part; the singers, actors, dancers, the stage, sound …

Nursery celebrate the Queen’s birthday.

In the Nursery we celebrated the Queen’s birthday by making a Victoria Sandwich cake and making crowns and streamers. We marched in the hall like soldiers of the Coldstream Guard before eating our special cake at snack time.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

45 members of Y4 went to a fantastic schools’ concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Poole Lighthouse last week The concert, ‘The Four Elements’ featured music by Stravinsky, Holst, Smetana, Debussy and Dvorak, as well as two pieces specially written for the event, ‘War and Peace’ and a song about the four elements, earth, …

Bamboo Tamboo!

4J enjoyed an exciting Bamboo Tamboo workshop with Mr Whitmarsh from Dorset Music Service. Bamboo Tamboo is a form of music from the Caribbean Islands of Trinidad and Tobago where a bamboo tube is hit against the ground and played with a beater. The sounds you can make with a long tube and …